Combination pocket-tool.



H. P. CHR'ESTENSEN 1&1. A. IVIORDN.

COMBINATION POCKET TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27. 1915.

1 ,200,079. Patented 001.. 3,1916.

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.HANS P. CHRISTENSEN AND JOI-IN A. MORDIN, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINATION POCKET-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented oct. e, 191e.

To all whom t may concern Be 1t known that we, HANS P. CHRISTEN- SEN and JOHN A. MoRnIN, citizens of the' United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful -Improvements in Combination Pocket- Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a combination pocket tool containing implements adapted to be used for various purposes, such as a knife blade, a hook, a can and bottle opener and a cork screw, which implements will ordinarily be contained within the casing of the tool, so that said casing presents a comparatively7 smooth rounded surface free from projections of any considerable size yand will therefore prevent in a great measure the entrance of dust implements.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 isa view of the combination tool closed; Fig. 2 is a view of the same open; Fig. 3 is a broken view of the same closed taken at right angles to that shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, 1, 2 indicate casing sections, each of an approximately semi-cylindrical form but with rounded ends, so that the casing when closed is approximately in the form of .a cylinder with hemispherical ends. The two casing sections are hinged together, as shown at 3, along adjacent longitudinal edges, a spring 4 coiled around the hinge pin tending to press said casing sections apart. Said casing sections are secured together, when closed, by means of spring latches 6, extending from the casing section 1 and having hook-shaped ends 7 which engage recesses 8 in the casing section 2, the other ends of the latches being secured to pins 13 which can slide in sockets 14 in the casing section 1, said latches being normally caused to engage said recesses 8 by means of springs 11, one end of each of which is secured, as shown at 12, to the casing section 1, and the other end bears upon the spring latch and presses the hook-shaped end intol the recess. To the side of each latch opposite to the spring is secured a pusher rod 5 which slides in a hole 9 extending longitudinally in the casing section 1, and the outer end of which projects slightly from said hole, s0 that, if pressure be applied to the outer ends of both rods, the hooks lof both latches will be released from the recesses and the casing sections will be free tor open. The interior of each section is semi-cylindrical in form except at the ends at which the wallis of the full thickness of the section, so that the inner surface of each end is in contact with that of the adjacent end of the other section when the casing is closed, and said ends are formed with central longitudinally extending recesses 15 in which are received the rounded or thickened ends 17 of the various implements contained in the casing, such as a knife blade 18, a can and bottle opener 19, a hook 21 and a cork screw carrier 23 and cork screw 22, and in said ends and extending across said recesses are secured pivot pins 24; by which the implements are pivoted. Each thickcned or rounded end is forked to receive a spring 26 coiled around the pivot pin.

Those around the Shanks of the knife blade and can and bottle opener are so coiled as to normally press the implement out of the casing, While-those around the shanks of the hook and cork screw carrier press them into the casing.

Spring latches 27 are secured at one end to the rear surface of the casing section l and at the other end extend over the edges of the tools therein to retain them in position in the casing section. As here shown the can and bottle opener lies in its closed position above or Without the knife blade and the cork screw carrier likewise lies in its closed position above or without the hook. Said cork screw carrier consists of a sheet metal blade having a longitudinally extending slot 28 formed at its outer end with an enlarged rounded hole 29 in which slot is secured .an oblong lug 31 extending from the cork-screw, which lug can not turn in the slot but can turn in the rounded hole at the end thereof, so that, when the lug is drawn to the outer end of the cork screw carrier, the cork screw can be turned to a position extending at right angles to the casing sections, and is then received, when the casing is closed, in two semi-circular recesses 32 in the outer edges of the casing sections and is held tightly therein.

In each end of each casing section is formed a central groove 16 extending longitudinally from the adjacent recess to the adjacent end of the casing section, each groove being of a depth equal to one-ha1f the thickness of the shank of each tool which is pivoted at that end of the casing, said shanks being of the same thickness,V so that when.

the casing is closed with any one of. the tools extending outside the casing and in .a groove 16, said casing lits tightly around the shank of the outwardly extending tool.

We claim In a device of the character described, the combination of casing sections hinged together along adjacent longitudinal edges, a cork screw carrier pivoted in a recess in an end 0f a casing section to rotate about a transverse axis, and having a longitudinal slot with an enlarged rounded end, and a cork screw carried thereby and having at its inoperative end an oblong lug slidable, but not rotatable, in said slot.l but rotatable in its rounded end, the free edges of the cas* ing sections being formed with semi-circular recesses which fit snugly around the shank of the cork screw when turned at right angles to said casing sections.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HANS P. CHRISTENSEN. JOHN A. MORDIN.

Titnesses F. M. WRIGHT, D. B. RICHARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtaginedkfor .ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

